Bibliography
Over the past few years I’ve read and consulted books related to my project: books about writing, other people’s memoirs, metaphysics, and books my grandmother read. Here is a sampling:
Memoirs and histories:
Fiorello's Sister: Gemma La Guardia Gluck’s Story by Gemma La Guardia Gluck, edited by Rochelle G. Saidel
2 Ans Au Bagne de Ravensbruck by Lucienne Simier
Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl
Mother Tongue by Tania Romanov
Crossing the Borders of Time by Leslie Maitland
Goodbye Vienna! by Stephen S. Kalmar
Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s History by Helen Epstein
Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons & Daughters of Survivors by Helen Epstein
Comrades and Chicken Ranchers by Kenneth Kahn
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal
Scattered Ghosts by Nick Barlay
Books about writing and creativity:
You Can Write Your Family History by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
Writing Family Histories & Memoirs by Kirk Polking
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Novels about an earlier San Francisco:
Laughter on the Hill: A San Francisco Interlude by Margaret Parton
Beautiful Illusion: Treasure Island, 1939 by Christie Nelson
Books about Metaphysics, Hand Analysis and what it means to be human:
Lifeprints: Deciphering Your Life Purpose From Your Fingerprints by Richard Unger
The Benham Book of Palmistry by William G. Benham
How to Know People by Their Hands by Josef Ranald
The Hermetica by Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy
Pendulum Magic For Beginners by Richard Webster
A Little Book of Runes by Cassandra Eason
Rune Power by Kenneth Meadows
Taking Up the Runes by Diana L. Paxson
We’ve Had A Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World’s Getting Worse by James Hillman & Michael Ventura
The Essential Enneagram by David N. Daniels and Virginia A. Price
Books Mentioned in My Grandmother’s Papers
Knock on Any Door by Willard Motley
I Met A Gypsy by Norah Lofts